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Word: intervale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Special Theory blew up the notion of an absolute frame of location or "hitching post" in the universe. Two observers moving relatively toward each other had to carry their own frames of reference. The two would not agree as to the separation of events in either space or time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open for Repairs | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Relativist Leigh Page, 51, of Yale, has worked out new frames of reference for two observers whose relative speeds are accelerating. Taking only the velocity of light as a constant, he has even devised mathematical formulas to serve as rigid measuring rods and regular clocks. These new frames, which Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open for Repairs | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker".

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROST APPOINTED TO POETRY CHAIR FOR A HALF YEAR | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

The sheer character of Squire Baldwin had by this time covered the stinking piece of fish with a sauce rich and delightful and Made-In-England. Proceeding, the Prime Minister took his stand not upon what he and his Cabinet had done and not upon what they had said, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

During this interval, at a table decorated with pink roses, stevia and maidenhair fern, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Mmes Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Marble v. Velvet (Cont'd) | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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